It started a week or so ago with all electric not working, thought it was a bad earth so removed all earths and cleaned before putting back, problem seemed to go so put it down to that. Since then it keeps happening, only fiddling with the live wire from the battery will give any power to...

Deffinatly do deserve a gold star, or a good pat on the back.

Right, all done, was a bad earth, just happened it showed itself at the exact moment I hoovered off the cigar lighter. I had checked the battery voltage, first thing I did after checking it was still there, lots of undesirables around and wouldn't be the first time I've looked and there was no...

I may be being blind but cant see any fuse board on the left under the bonnet, can anyone be a bit more exact? Cheers, luckily ive got tools with me, so i will check all earths etc now.

Its an early 200TDI, cheers will look now.

Right, basically I just tried to start my 200tdi up again after driving it this morning. There is no power when I turn the key, no lights come up. The horn or lights won't work either. I just used a vacuum through the cigar lighter so presume I've blown a fuse but all the fuses inside the...

I read that you only needed a rotating hitch if I intended to take it off road which I don't at the moment, I could always change over hitch if I find I do need it to rotate. In regards to the pin if you mean on my lower hitch, well I can't, but fortunately the other trailer I use is...

Cheers, tried to upload a photo with the bumper back on but it wasn't having any of it. Didn't take long either, longest bit was measuring and cutting the hole in the bumper

Was fairly simple; removed the bumper, undid the bolts to the orrininal tow hitch and then put the mounting plate on, after i made a paper template and cut a hole into the bumper. Hardest part was to bolt the nato hitch on after the bumper was replaced, had to put a spanner behind and use a...

Fitted a NATO hitch to the back of the disco today, wasn't too difficult just had to cut a bit out the back of the bumper. It seems to be the right height so the sankey sits pretty flat. I used a Bracket from yrm, it's meant to be the same as what they put on the camel trophy discovery. It...

Oh makes sense now, there I was in tescos for best part of 10 minutes looking for a 28p price ticket. No wonder I didn't find it

Where was it on the shelf there? I looked for ages and couldn't even see the 28p offer anywhere, well the empty shelf anyways.

Cheers, might give that a go in a bit. Thought there would be a simple solution.

Yer I suppose, bit unsure on it really as the rear centre head rest is right in the way of the rear view. I think I'd prefer my 200tdi any day.

At the end of the day I missed two obvious things as I was worrying about other stuff but hopefully won't be making that mistake again. Although I do feel like a bit of a dick. It wasn't all doom and gloom as I managed to borrow a td5 for the weekend so I've been able to get the odds and sods...

It's not the fact I'm disinterested in it at all. The power steering I know was a stupid mistake that I will never repeat. But I had no idea about the headlights. Also if I was really dis interested do you think I would have bothered putting in a new engine and doing loads of welding?

Thanks, I know what I'll be doing tomorrow evening :D

I better get myself a copy of a Haynes manual then. I have always had small things like that done if needed to pass before but there's a new tester so I guess it's not his style. I admit that I should probably do these sort of checks from now to now but I've only just finished it after I...

Yer I completely agree that I should have checked it first but ive been doing 6 til 6's for the last 2 weeks so been running short on time. At the risk of soundin stupi (well even more) how do I check the headlights on the drive?

Got my 200tdi MOT'd today and as title suggests it's failed. I'm a bit annoyed as from what I can see it failed on two pathetic reasons that would have taken less than 10 minutes to correct. Firstly it failed on headlight adjustment both were aiming too high, they wouldn't correct today for...